James Garfield Stewart was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 from Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio

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. He served as mayor of Cincinnati from 1938 to 1947 and then as justice on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1947 to 1959. Stewart's son Potter

Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.-Education:Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan,...

 (born in 1915) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His son, Zeph Stewart, was the master of Lowell House and head of the Classics department at Harvard. His daughter was Irene Potter Stewart Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Biography

Stewart was born in Springfield, Ohio

Springfield, Ohio

Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River, Buck Creek and Beaver Creek, approximately west of Columbus and northeast of Dayton. Springfield is home to Wittenberg...

, and graduated from Kenyon College

Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

 in 1902. He graduated from Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the bar

Admission to the bar in the United States

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 in 1905. He opened a private practice in Springfield for three years before joining Hugh L. Nichols' firm in Cincinnati in 1908. He was elected to City Council in 1934, and was Mayor 1938-1947.

March 5, 1947, Governor Thomas J. Herbert

Thomas J. Herbert

Thomas James Herbert was a Republican politician from Ohio. He was the 56th Governor of Ohio.Herbert was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After serving in the Army Air Service during World War I, Herbert returned to Ohio, where he graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1919, and...

 nominated Stewart to the seat on the Ohio Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Charles S. Bell. He was re-elected in 1948, 1952 and 1958. He died April 3, 1959 after giving a speech in Kentucky

Kentucky

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. His funeral was at Christ Church in Cincinnati, with burial in Springfield.

Stewart and Harriet L. Potter were married in 1911, and later divorced.